On Dan Modisett's comments on the 6:00 p.m. news, he predicted the governor would appoint Chip Pickering until the election and then it would be a runoff between Chip Pickering and Mike Moore for the senate seat.

Marshall Ramsey, 39, is the editorial cartoonist for The Clarion-Ledger. He is a two-time Pulitzer finalist and is nationally syndicated by Copley News Service. His cartoons have appeared in USA Today, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times and on his Mother's refrigerator. It is also rumored that his work has appeared frequently in the bathrooms of several prominent local politicians.